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The Antikythera Mechanism Secret Solved
‘As the professor argued, this machine is the root of all civilization and technology and in fact, it is the oldest computer “tablet.”’ greekreporter.com/2022/09/15…
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The chemical industry has known for decades that ingested microplastics can infiltrate vital organs, an investigation has found.
e360.yale.edu/digest/chemica…
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HMS Tyne passes HMS Bangor in the Firth of Forth today.
Bangor sailed from South Shields yesterday.
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New from @VerdantThinking: we estimate 1 in 9 UK households can't afford the government's recommended food stockpile - 6.4m people, 2.2m of them children.
Link below...
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Finchley Road Station, London, 1910.
A wonderful glimpse of Edwardian London, with a horse-drawn vehicle waiting outside and a huge sign advertising trains to the Japan–British Exhibition at White City.
The station had opened in 1879 and was still part of the Metropolitan Railway. Just four years after this photograph, the frontage would be rebuilt, making this a lovely record of the old station before it disappeared.
#LondonHistory #FinchleyRoad
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We're joined by the acclaimed economist Isabella Weber, author of the new book "Anti-Fascist Economics: In Defense of Affordability, Dignity, and Democracy."
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The left should look at this stuff in the same way that Thatcher reflected on Blair: “We forced our opponents to change their minds."
The argument on public ownership for rail, mail, water and energy, has never been stronger.
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Stop the stealth tax!!!
1 in 6 pensioners survive on the State Pension alone. This year, many will be dragged into paying taxes on this tiny amount of money.
The suggestion that tax brackets might be altered in this week’s budget to help these low income pensioners is welcome.
But tax brackets have been static since 2022, with more of us pulled into paying more tax on stagnant wages. And this government are already threatening to take £1500 a year from pensioners through triple lock cuts.
We need to stop tinkering around the edges - increase tax thresholds for all, leave pensioners alone, and start taxing those who can afford it.
#WealthTax #StealthTax #StatePension
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Muito obrigado, primeiro-ministro @andyburnham, pelas felicitações e pela amizade. Nossa vitória reafirma o compromisso com a democracia, a justiça social e os valores progressistas. Neste ano em que celebramos 200 anos de relações diplomáticas entre Brasil e Reino Unido, seguiremos trabalhando juntos para ampliar oportunidades, gerar empregos e promover o desenvolvimento e a prosperidade de nossos povos.
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Well, well, well...
80% of "donations" to Nigel Farage’s party are from donors or companies based overseas.
This is not normal.
And the public deserves to know what these super-rich donors want back in return.
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This is brilliant. It resembles the sortition process used by Athens to select decision makers. It is far superior to the narcissism and money dominated popularity contests we currently call democracy.
Sırbistan'da öğrenciler doğrudan demokrasi yöntemini seçim siyasetine taşıdılar.
Liderlere dayalı, yukarıdan aşağıya bir örgütlenme yerine, herkesin söz alabildiği öğrenci genel kurulları (plenum) oluşturdular. Kararlar tartışılarak, mümkün olduğunca uzlaşmayla alındı.
Bu yöntemi üniversitelerin dışına da taşıdılar. Mahallelerde, kentlerde ve köylerde yurttaş meclisleri (zborovi) kuruldu. İnsanlar kendi sorunlarını tartışmak, çözüm önermek ve birlikte karar almak için toplandı.
250 kişilik milletvekili aday listesini de şöyle oluşturdular:
1- Önce 250 adaylık kontenjanı, öğrenci sayılarına göre altı üniversite kenti arasında paylaştırdılar. Belgrad'ın listeye hâkim olmaması için diğer kentlerin de üst sıralarda temsil edilmesini sağladılar. Ardından her kentin kontenjanını fakülteler arasında dağıttılar.
2- Ülke genelinde 80'den fazla fakültede öğrenci genel kurulları toplandı. Öğrenciler kendileri aday olmadı ama her biri aday önerebildi ve neden o kişiyi önerdiğini açıkladı. İsimler tartışıldı, önce uzlaşma arandı, gerektiğinde oylama yapıldı.
3- Mevcut siyasi kadrolara kapıyı kapattılar. İktidar partilerinin mevcut ve eski üyelerini, iktidar adına görev yapmış siyasetçileri ve bürokratları, muhalefet partilerinin üst düzey yöneticilerini aday göstermediler. Böylece hem iktidardan hem de yerleşik muhalefetten bağımsız bir liste oluşturdular.
4- Fakülteler birbirlerinin adaylarını da denetledi. Önerilen bütün isimler ortak bir listede toplandı ve tüm fakültelerin incelemesine açıldı. İtirazlar öğrenci kurullarında tartışıldı. Adayın elenmesi için kurulların yarısından fazlasının veto etmesi gerekiyordu. Tek bir fakültenin itirazı yeterli değildi.
5- Elenen veya çekilen adayların yerine yedekler getirildi. Böylece profesörlerin, doktorların, bilim insanlarının, işçilerin, sanatçıların ve aktivistlerin yer aldığı 250 kişilik liste ortaya çıktı.
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“Having a high-speed line is now seen as a requirement of twenty-first-century nationhood.
With cars being problematic in so many ways, high-speed trains seem to have been blessed with good great fortune: they are beautiful, fast, elegant, modern and environmentally friendlier."
ALT A hand holds a book, "Fast Track: The Extraordinary Story of High-Speed Rail" by Christian Wolmar, in front of St. Pancras International Station.
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Congratulations to personnel from the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force who graduated from No. 1 Flying Training School on 23 Oct 26. The Reviewing Officer was Brigadier Andrew Mitchell. We wish them the very best for their future flying careers.
#flyingschool #UKMFTS
ALT Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force graduates with the Reviewing Officer.
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The Two Women Who Cracked the Abwehr Enigma: How Mavis Batey and Margaret Rock Helped Secure D-Day
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Ahead of D-Day, Mavis Batey and Margaret Rock played a leading role in cracking the complex Enigma code of the Abwehr, the German Secret Service. Unlike other machines it had four rotors instead of the standard three, and they rotated randomly, with no predictable pattern. Hut 6 had been unable to break it.
On 8 December 1941 Mavis Batey broke a message on the link between Belgrade and Berlin, allowing the reconstruction of one of the rotors. Within days Knox and his team had broken into the Abwehr Enigma, and shortly afterwards Mavis broke a second Abwehr machine.
The significance of their work cannot be overestimated. MI5 and MI6 were running double agents as part of the ‘Double Cross System’ and feeding deception and fake intelligence to the Germans. Being able to decode the messages between the Abwehr and their agents ensured that the double agents were really working for the Allies. It also provided a way to monitor whether the Germans had accepted the deception.
It ensured the success of the D-Day landings because the Double Cross agents fed information to the Germans that the invasion was to occur at Pas de Calais and not at the real landing points in Normandy. Brigadier Bill Williams, Montgomery’s chief intelligence officer, said that without cracking the Abwehr Enigma, the deception operation could not have been mounted as the Germans would have moved their reinforcements from Calais to Normandy. The successes of D-Day would have had a very different outcome.
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Our brilliant people work 24/7 on our mission to protect the UK from those seeking to do us harm, including:
⦿ Cyber criminals,
⦿ Hostile states,
⦿ Terrorists.
Find out more about our vital work ⬇️
gchq.gov.uk/section/mission/…
ALT Exterior view of the GCHQ building at dusk, featuring its modern architecture and a colorful sky in the background.
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I wrote about Burnham’s first 100 days, Mao’s mass line, & ‘consultative Leninism’.
We are now seeing a PM who leans into left populism, without having much time for members driving policy. That’s new.
Centralisation plus input from below, seems an interesting mix…..
unherd.com/2026/10/chairman-…
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The 1981 MOD assessment, drawn up by the Service Chiefs, about the scale of threat posed to the UK by Soviet air forces - up to 200 bombers delivering 1200 tonnes of weapons per day.
It noted UK stockpiles of SAMS (Rapier & Bloodhound) would be exhausted in 3 days.
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A short film showing traffic on Blackfriars Bridge in July 1896.
Pioneering filmmaker Robert W. Paul positioned his camera at the southern end of the bridge, looking north towards the City of London. Beyond lay Fleet Street and St Paul’s, while steam trains (unfortunately not seen here) crossed the neighbouring railway bridge.
A wonderful glimpse of ordinary Londoners going about their lives 130 years ago.
#VictorianLondon #1890s #VictorianBritain
